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Che  mobammedan  missionary  Problem,  - Ulitb  a Chart 

Y\  ~J  Vt  d r>  a . By  THE  REV.  S.  M.  ZWEMER.  F.  R.  G.  S. 


“ Father,  the  hour  has  come,  glorify  Thy  Son.” 

N these  words  are  joined  the  highest 
motive  and  the  most  potent  plea  for 
missions  to  the  Moslems.  The  awful 
sin  and  guilt  of  the  Mohammedan 
world  is  that  they  give  Christ’s  glory 
to  another.  Whatever  place  J esus 
Christ  may  occupy  in  the  Koran — and  the 
portrait  there  given  is  a sad  caricature,  what- 
ever favorable  critics  may  say  about  Christ's 
honorable  place  among  the  Moslem  prophets 
— it  is  nevertheless  true  that  the  large  bulk  of 
Mohammedans  know  extremely  little  and  think 
still  less  of  the  Son  of  Mary.  He  has  no  place 
in  their  hearts  or  in  their  lives.  All  the  prophets 
have  not  only  been  succeeded  but  also  sup- 
planted by  Mohammed.  He  is  at  once  the 

~ — sealer  and  concealer  of  all  former  revelations.  — — — — — “ — 

Mohammed  is  called  Light  of  God,  Peace  of  the  World,  Glory  of  Ages,  First  of  all 
Creatures,  and  other  names  of  yet  greater  import.  His  apotheosis  was  completed  by  tradition. 
In  the  Koran  be  is  human;  in  tradition  he  becomes  sinless  and  almost  divine.  No  Moslem 
prays  to  Mohammed,  but  every  Moslem  prays  for  his  aid  in  endless  repetition  daily.  He  is  the 
only  powerful  intercessor  on  the  day  of  judgment.  His  name  is  never  uttered  or  written  without 
the  addition  of  a prayer.  Ya  Mohammed  is  the  open  sesame  to  every  door  of  difficulty,  temporal 
or  spiritual.  One  hears  that  name  in  the  bazaar  and  in  the  street,  in  the  mosque  and  from  the 
minaret.  Sailors  sing  it  while  raising  their  sails;  hammals  groan  it  to  raise  a burden;  the  beggar 
howls  it  to  obtain  alms;  it  is  the  Bedouin’s  cry  when  making  an  attack  on  a caravan;  it  hushes 
dusky  babies  to  sleep  as  a cradle  song;  and  it  is  the  best  name  to  swear  by  for  an  end  of  all 
dispute  in  a close  bargain. 

The  exceeding  honor  given  to  Mohammed’s  name  by  his  followers  is  only  one  indication  of 
the  place  their  prophet  occupies  in  their  system  and  holds  in  their  hearts.  From  the  fulness  of 
the  heart  the  mouth  speaketh.  Mohammed  holds  the  keys  of  heaven  and  hell.  No  Moslem, 
however  bad  his  character,  will  perish  finally;  no  unbeliever,  however  good  his  life,  can  be  saved 
except  through  Mohammed.  One  has  only  to  question  the  Moslem  masses  or  read  a single 
volume  of  the  traditions  to  prove  these  statements.  In  short,  Christ’s  name  and  place  and  office 
and  glory  have  been  usurped  by  another.  Islam  in  its  final  result,  if  not  in  its  essence,  is  anti- 
Christ.  An  abomination  of  desolation  standing  now  for  thirteen  centuries  in  the  Holy  Place;  a 
__________  scourge  of  God  which  fell  on  an  unholy  and 

idolatrous  church:  a temple  to  half-truths, 
built  on  blood,  buttressed  by  civil  law,  and  the 
shrine  as  well  as  the  shelter  for  one  hundred 
and  seventy  million  people, — such  is  Islam. 

To  one  who  knows  anything  of  the  Eastern 
religion  it  is  not  surprising  that  there  is  an 
Eastern  question.  The  finger  of  Providence 
is  now  pointing  to  an  Eastern  crisis  on  every 
side  of  the  Mohammedan  horizon.  What 
does  it  mean  ? “ Father , the  hour  has  come, 

glorify  thy  Son.”  The  glory  of  the  Son  of 
Isaac  pleads  for  the  evangelization  of  the  seed 
of  Ishmael.  Over  against  Carlyle’s  or  any- 
body else’s  hero-worship  we  put  the  eternal 
truth  of  God  in  regard  to  His  beloved  Son. 

“It  pleased  the  Father  that  in  Him  should 
all  fulness  dwell,” — not  in  Mohammed. 


622  A.  D 


Cbc  Mohammedan 

(This  Chart  was  specially  prepared  for  the  Third  Inte  ational 


MOSLEM 

POPULATION 


LANGUAGE 


GOVERNMENT 


Koumania, 
Bulgaria,  etc. 


Europe 


Greece 


Turkey  111  Europe 


5,811,617 


Asia 


134,642,764 


Africa 


luaala  In  Europe 


Turkey  In  Asia 
Arabia 

Persia 


Kussta  In  Asia 


Afghanistan 

Baluchistan 


India 


China 


neo, etc 


Eim>t 


Zanzibar 


Morocco, 

Tripoli 


1,187,452 


Slavonic 


I tide  pendent 


24,165 


Turkish 


2,000,000 


Turkish 


2,600,000 


Kusslun 


12,000,000 

10,000,000 

7,560,600 


Turkish 

and 

Arabic 


Persian 


8,261,000 


Russian 


4,000,000 

500,000 


Paslitu 

Baluchi 


57,321,164 


Hi  ndustani 


20,000,000 


Chinese 


15,000,000 


Malay,  etc. 


Kingdoms 


Kingd 


Turkish 


Russian 


Turkish 


*4  Turkish 

% Independ 


Monarch) 


Russian 


Absolute 

Monarchy 

British 

Protection 


British 


Chinese 


StttejrtMdj 

French 


6,000,000 

150,000 


Arabic 

Swahell 


British 
Occu  patio  u 


Brit.  Ac  Ger. 
Protection 


Region  of 
hake  Tsitd 


boutUtU 


Sokoto 
Sahara,  etc 

60,150,000 

Total  Mos  lent  Population 


*354 

1790  to 


634 

622 

800 


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1400-1478 


1800 


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ltd  In 


9,100,000 


Tribal 


14.000. 000 

10.000. 000 


200,604,381 


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■ lam  i tie 


Tribal 

Tribal 


1700-1800  h 

dioo 


1800  S« 

1800  S( 


Explanation  of  Colors:  R^ 

Green 
White 


under  Christian  rule  or  protection, 
under  Turkish  rule, 
under  other  governments. 


1898  A.  D 


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ier»tional  Convention  of  Student  Volunteers,  Cleveland,  1898) 




MISSIONARY 

EFFORT 

I DATE 

PROTESTANT  AGENCIES 

VISIBLE  RESULTS 

Indirect 

1859 

tic lli  tCpiscopul  N.  and  otlicrw 

M ■■ 

None  among  mosleins 

None 

— 

WBmmBm 

IHn 

Indirect 
■ uMmnorUnl 

1830 

A.  n.  c.  f.  in. 

Foreign  Christian  mission 

Bible  translated.  Literature  Col- 
leges. Schools.  Kvang.  Churches 

None 

B.  A F.  Bible  Society 

gjjgfSS 

1 ndirect 
■it  Important 

Direct 

1818 

1885 

1 890 

A.  B.  C.  F.  1H.,  C.  II  S. 
Presb.  ltd.,  etc. 

Keith  Falconer  mission 
The  Arabian  .11  Isslon,  It  C A 

Strategic  points  all  occupied 
Bible  trails  1.  Herat  u re,  schools,  and 
colleges.  Churches.  Bcyrout  Press. 
Bible  distribution,  medical  work. 
Preaching.  Four  stations. 

I ndirect 
and  direct 

1811 

C.  IB.  S.,  Presb.  Bd 

Bible  translated.  Schools.  Converts 
martyrs 

None 

— 

Bible  Societies 

Bible  translated 

None 

— 

— 

Bible  translated 

egun  recently 

— 

C.  tl.  S. 

math.  Uospcl  translated 

Dlr»  ct 

md  indirect 

1810 

C.  tl  S.,  Presb  Bd.  and  other 
Societies 

Bible  translated— many  stations. 
Schools.  Controversy.  Converts. 

•Scarcely  any 

— 

Only  incidentally  by  various 
Societies 

Bible  translated 

Direct 

M BSfWiii  i iVi  ittii  I'm 

IS  02 
1858 

Various  Dutch  Societies 
Uheniah  til**  Society 

in  Java.  All  agencies  freely  at 
work.  Bible  translated 

Portly  direct 
id  Important 

1854 

V.  P mission,  C.  m.  S , 
North  Africa  mission 

Controversial  literature.  Schools. 
Converts.  Churches. 

Direct 

1875 

I'nlverMlties  UIImmIoh 

Three  stations.  Schools.  Hospital 
aud  Dispensary 

Direct 

1 8S4 

North  Africa  mission,  etc. 

s' 

Uledical  l?lt»sioiis 

Indirect 

1889 

ii  it  it 

Preaching  and  touring.  Literature 

Direct 

1 SS5 

it  it  it 

Direct 

1884 

it  it  it 

number  of  converts 

i)  None 

None 

None 

The  statistics  of  population  are  based  on  the  Statesman’s  Year  Book. 
1897,  and  the  Encyclopaedia  of  Missions. 


“ The  Father  loveth  the  Son  and  hath  given  all  things  into  His  hand,”— not  into  the  hand*  of 
Mohammed . God  hath  exalted  Him  and  given  Him  a name  which  is  above  every  name," 

• • • • far  above  all  principality  and  power  and  might  and  dominion  and  every  name 

that  is  named,  not  only  in  this  world  but  also  in  that  which  is  to  come;’’  that  at  the  name  of 
Jesus  every  Mohammedan  “ knee  should  bow,”  and  every  Arab  “ tongue  confess  that  Jesus 
Christ  is  Lord  to  the  glory  of  God  the  Father.”  These  are  some  of  the  promises  for  the 
success  of  missions  to  Moslems.  Have  we  ever  claimed  them  for  this  purpose?  And  if  we 
have  in  meagre  measure  claimed  them,  yet  how'  far  our  faith  has  out  measured  our  faithfulness. 

There  was  a thousand  fold  more  enthusiasm  in  the  daik  ages  to  wrest  an  empty 
sepulchre  from  the  Saracens  than  there  is  in  our  day  to  bring  them  the  knowledge  of  a living 
Saviour.  There  is  no  Peter  the  hermit,  and  no  one  girds  for  a new  crusade.  We  are  playing 
at  Missions  as  far  as  Mohammedanism  is  concerned.  For  there  are  more  mosques  in 
Jerusalem  than  there  are  missionaries  in  all  Arabia;  and  more  millions  of  Moslems  in  China 
than  the  number  of  missionary  societies  that  work  for  Moslems  in  the  whole  world  ! Where 
Christ  was  born  Mohammed’s  name  is  called  from  minarets  five  times  daily,  but  where  Moham- 
med was  born  no  Christian  dares  to  enter. 

America  entertains  perverts  to  Islam  at  a parliament  of  religions,  while  throughout  vast 
regions  of  the  Mohammedan  world  millions  of  Moslems  have  never  so  much  as  heard  of  the 
incarnation  and  the  atonement  of  the  Son  of  God  the  Saviour  of  the  world  The  Holy  Land 
is  still  in  unholy  hands,  and  all  Christendom  stood  gazing  while  the  sword  of  the  Crescent  was 
uplifted  in  Armenia  and  Crete,  until  the  uttermost  confines  of  the  Moslem  world  rejoiced  at 
her  apathy  and  impotence  With  the  glorious  motto,  “the  evangelization  of  the 
world  in  this  generation,  are  we  to  leave  out  of  reckoning  this  vast  problem  whose 
bare  outlines  are  given  in  the  chart  ? 

Is  this  to  be  the  measure  of  our  consecration  ? Is  this  the  extent  of  our  loyal  devotion 
to  the  cause  of  our  King?  His  place  occupied  by  a usurper  and  His  glory  given  to  another, 
while  the  Church  slumbered  and  slept;  shall  we  not  arise  and  win  back  the  lost  kingdom? 
Missions  to  Moslems  are  the  only  Christian  solution  of  the  Eastern 
Question.  “ Father,  the  hour  has  come,  glorify  thy  Son.”  God  wills  it.  Let  our  rallying 
cry  be,  Every  stronghold  of  Islam  for  Christ ! Not  a war  of  gunboats  or  of  diplomacy,  but 
a Holy  War  with  the  Sword  of  the  Spirit,  which  is  the  Word  of  God.  Let  God  arise  and 
let  His  enemies  be  scattered.  “Father,  the  hour  has  come,  glorify  Thy  Son.” 


E Prayer  for  the  mobammedan  Ulorld 


O Lord  God,  to  whom  the  sceptre  of  right  belongeth,  lift  up  Thyself,  and  travel  in  the 
greatness  of  Thy  strength  throughout  the  Mohammedan  lands  of  the  East;  because  of  the 
anointing  of  Thy  Son,  Jesus  Christ,  as  Thy  true  Prophet,  Priest  and  King,  destroy  the  sword 
of  Islam,  and  break  the  yoke  of  the  false  prophet  Mohammed  from  oil  the  necks  of  Egypt. 
Arabia,  Turkey,  Persia,  and  other  Moslem  lands,  that  so  there  may  be  opened  throughout 
these  lands  a great  door  and  effectual  for  the  Gospel,  that  the  Word  of  the  Lord  may  have  free 
course  and  be  glorified,  and  the  veil  upon  so  many  hearts  may  be  removed,  through  Jesus 
Christ,  our  Lord.  Amen.  — C.  M.  S.  Intelligencer 


PRESS  or  1.  SCOTT  CO.,  14S  WEST  »IRO  ST.,  N.  Y 


